Physicians at war : the dual-loyalties challenge / Fritz Allhoff, editor.
| Other author | Allhoff, Fritz. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | [New York] : Springer, ©2008. |
| Description | 1 online resource (xii, 271 pages). |
| Supplemental Content | EBSCOhost |
| Subjects |
| Series | International library of ethics, law, and the new medicine ; v. 41 International library of ethics, law, and the new medicine v. 41. ^A537725 |
| Contents | Physicians at war: the dual-loyalties challenge / Fritz Allhoff -- Dual-loyalty and human rights in health professional practice: proposed guidelines and institutional mechanisms / International Dual-Loyalty Working Group -- Guidelines to prevent the malevolent use of physicians in war / Michael E. Frisina -- Dual disloyalties: law and medical ethics at Guantanamo Bay / Jonathan H. Marks -- Toward a framework for military health ethics / Gervase Pearce, Peter Saul -- Physician involvement in hostile interrogations / Fritz Allhoff -- Indecent medicine revisited: considering physician involvement in torture / Richard Matthews -- Torture and the regulation of the health care professions / John Lunstroth -- Is medicine a pacifist vocation or should doctors help build bombs? / Michael L. Gross -- The case against doctor involvement in weapons design and development / Vivienne Nathanson -- Armed conflict and value conflict: case studies in biological weapons / Michael J. Selgelid -- Ethics and the dual-use dilemma in the life sciences / Seumas Miller, Michael J. Selgelid -- Triage priorities and military physicians / Marcus P. Adams -- Medical neutrality and political activism: physicians' roles in conflict situations / Justin M. List. |
| Review | "There are a range of ethical issues that confront physicians in times of war, as well as some of the uses of physicians during wars. This book presents a theoretical apparatus which undergirds those debates, namely by casting physicians as being confronted with dual-loyalties during times of war. While this theoretical apparatus has already been developed in other contexts, it has not been specifically brought to bear on the ethical conflicts that attain in wars. Arguably, wars thrust physicians into ethical conflicts insofar as these wars create a tension between a physicians obligation to heal and an obligation to serve some other good (e.g., military chain of command, national security, the greater good, etc.)."--Jacket. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Source of description | Print version record. |
| Issued in other form | Print version: Physicians at war. [New York] : Springer, ©2008 9781402069116 1402069111 |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2008922459 |
| ISBN | 9781402069123 |
| ISBN | 140206912X |
| ISBN | 9781402069116 |
| ISBN | 1402069111 |
| Stock number | 978-1-4020-6911-6 Springer http://www.springerlink.com |